Thanks, Michael; with that hint I tried a google search on "Asus
Sabertooth FX" + "secure boot" and found a You-tube video showing me how
to do all sorts of tweaking, including disabling secure boot. Tried
that, and now I can boot from the rEFInd CD.
Cheers
Ian
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On 08/11/14 21:26, Michael Daffin wrote:
That is secure boot preventing you from booting an unsigned kernel.
You should be able to disable it in the BIOS though some don't label
it as so obviously.
On 8 Nov 2014 21:18, "Ian Park" <i.d.c.p...@ntlworld.com
<mailto:i.d.c.p...@ntlworld.com>> wrote:
I recently bought a new PC from PC Specialist (the third one I've
had from them - the laptop I'm using to compose this, and an
"entry level" desktop for my wife). The new machine has an Asus
Sabretooth motherboard with a UEFI BIOS.
The first time I booted up the PC, I was too slow to hit the F2
key to go into the BIOS, and it booted into Windows (I'd specified
that I wanted the machine with no OS, but I guess that PC
Specialist installed Windows for the system test). I promptly did
a restart, and this time caught it in time to hit F2 and go into
the BIOS. I was able to change the boot order so that it booted
from the Mint live DVD, stoked up gparted and re-arranged sda to
have the partition layout I wanted (sda1 as 512MB for the EFI boot
partition, sda2 & sda3 as 20GB partitions for root of Linux Mint
and another OS to try out if I fancy it, sda4 as 20GB swap and
sda5 as the remaining 160ish GB for the "visible" home partition
to share between 2 distros. I was then able to install Mint 17 on
sda2.
I then followed the tutorial in Linux Voice issue 2 to set up sda1
as the EFI boot partition and install the rEFInd boot manager. I
hit a rock when I tried to boot from a USB stick with rEFInd on
it, or a CD with rEFInd on it. The error message was: "The system
found unauthorised changes on the firmware, operating system or
UEFI drivers." I have a strong suspicion that this was an
after-effect of the Windows installation which I deleted.
Can anyone suggest a way of removing this Windows contamination,
please?
Thanks in advance
Ian
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